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We present a family of algorithms, combining real-space renormalization methods and belief propagation, to estimate the free energy of a topologically ordered system in the presence of defects. Such an algorithm is needed to preserve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Guillaume Duclos-Cianci , David Poulin

Robust quantum computation requires encoding delicate quantum information into degrees of freedom that are hard for the environment to change. Quantum encodings have been demonstrated in many physical systems by observing and correcting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Maika Takita , Andrew W. Cross , A. D. Córcoles , Jerry M. Chow , Jay M. Gambetta

Quantum-enhanced auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (QC-AFQMC) uses output from a quantum computer to increase the accuracy of its classical counterpart. The algorithm requires the estimation of overlaps between walker states and a trial…

Conventional quantum error correction (QEC) decoders such as Minimum-Weight Perfect Matching (MWPM) and Union-Find (UF) offer high thresholds and fast decoding, respectively, but both suffer from high topological complexity. In contrast,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xinyi Guo , Geguang Miao , Shinichi Nishizawa , Hiromitsu Awano , Shinji Kimura , Takashi Sato

Recent experimental advances have made it possible to implement logical multi-qubit transversal gates on surface codes in a multitude of platforms. A transversal controlled-NOT (tCNOT) gate on two surface codes introduces correlated errors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Kaavya Sahay , Yingjia Lin , Shilin Huang , Kenneth R. Brown , Shruti Puri

The realization of fault-tolerant quantum computers hinges on the construction of high-speed, high-accuracy, real-time decoding systems. The persistent challenge lies in the fundamental trade-off between speed and accuracy: efforts to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Riki Toshio , Kaito Kishi , Jun Fujisaki , Hirotaka Oshima , Shintaro Sato , Keisuke Fujii

Quantum computing promises exponential acceleration for fluid flow simulations, yet the measurement overhead required to extract flow features from quantum-encoded flow field data fundamentally undermines this advantage--a critical…

We propose without loss of generality strategies to achieve a high-throughput FPGA-based architecture for a QC-LDPC code based on a circulant-1 identity matrix construction. We present a novel representation of the parity-check matrix (PCM)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Swapnil Mhaske , Hojin Kee , Tai Ly , Ahsan Aziz , Predrag Spasojevic

The surface code is one of the most promising candidates for combating errors in large scale fault-tolerant quantum computation. A fault-tolerant decoder is a vital part of the error correction process---it is the algorithm which computes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 Fern H. E. Watson , Hussain Anwar , Dan E. Browne

Quantum error correction (QEC) is essential for operating quantum computers in the presence of noise. Here, we accurately decode arbitrary Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) codes via the maximum satisfiability (MaxSAT) problem. We show how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Mohammadreza Noormandipour , Tobias Haug

Due to the speed limitation of the conventional bit-chosen strategy in the existing weighted bit flipping algorithms, a high-speed LDPC decoder cannot be realized. To solve this problem, we propose a fast weighted bit flipping (FWBF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Kexiang Ma , Yongzhao Li , Caizhi Zhu , Hailin Zhang , Feng Qi

Achieving practical quantum advantage requires a classical decoding algorithm to identify and correct faults during computation. This classical decoding algorithm must deliver both accuracy and speed, but in what combination? When is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Nicolas Delfosse , Andres Paz , Alexander Vaschillo , Krysta M. Svore

Superconducting quantum processor units (QPUs) are incapable of producing massive datasets for quantum error correction (QEC) because of hardware limitations. Thus, QEC decoders heavily depend on synthetic data from qubit error models.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Songhuan He , Yifei Cui , Bo Liu , Kai Guo , Cheng Wang

The problem of mismatched decoding with an additive metric $q$ for a discrete memoryless channel $W$ is addressed. The "product-space" improvement of the random coding lower bound on the mismatch capacity, $C_q^{(\infty)}(W)$, was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Anelia Somekh-Baruch

The usual belief propagation (BP) decoders are, in general, exchanging local information on the Tanner graph of the quantum error-correcting (QEC) code and, in particular, are known to not have a threshold for the surface code. We propose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Pedro Hack , Luca Menti , Francisco Lazaro , Alexandru Paler

Fast decoders that achieve strong error suppression are essential for fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) from both practical and theoretical perspectives. The union-find (UF) decoder for the surface code is widely regarded as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Satoshi Yoshida , Ethan Lake , Hayata Yamasaki

A perfect matching in an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ is a set of vertex disjoint edges from $E$ that include all vertices in $V$. The perfect matching problem is to decide if $G$ has such a matching. Recently Rothvo{\ss} proved the striking…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-04-26 David Avis , David Bremner , Hans Raj Tiwary , Osamu Watanabe

In order to implement a quantum computing application, problem instances must be encoded into a quantum circuit and then compiled for a specific platform. The lengthy compilation process is a key bottleneck in this workflow, especially for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Nils Quetschlich , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

Steane code is one of the most widely studied quantum error-correction codes, which is a natural choice for fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC). However, the original Steane code is not fault-tolerant because the CNOT gates in an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Qiqing Xia , Huiqin Xie , Li Yang

We describe a distributed, asynchronous variant of Edmonds's exact algorithm for producing perfect matchings of minimum weight. The development of this algorithm is driven by an application to online error correction in quantum computing,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Eric C. Peterson , Peter J. Karalekas